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Miyoshi Barosh: Feel Better at Luis De Jesus Imagine a bunch of felines on acid, driving through downtown Los Angeles in a supped up Caddy sipping martinis, purring to Lady GaGa and you’ve acquired just a taste of Miyoshi Barosh’s fantastical and scathing...
Joshua Aster: Innerverse at Edward Cella Gallery The title of Joshua Aster’s elegant and masterful show, Innerverse, at Edward Cella Gallery expresses both the complexity and lyricism that is at the heart of Aster’s artistic practice. These paintings, all oil on...
B.A.T. (Bon à Tirer | Good to Go) at Offramp Gallery Offramp Gallery delivers another strongly engaging and most definitely feminist tour de force that showcases prints by women artists and El Nopal press. The lineup includes artists like Carolyn Castano and Linda...
“Chris Burden: Extreme Measures,” at New York’s New Museum is the artist’s first major exhibition in the U.S. in over 25 years. A legendary provocateur, Burden has challenged traditional concepts of art through his galvanizing performance pieces and later...
Any time an artist can invoke Michelangelo and Steve Ditko in the same work, he deserves considerable respect. At least that is the feeling one gets from the impressive show of work by Jim Shaw recently on view at Blum & Poe. As expected, Shaw’s work is erudite...
Karen Carson has a tremendous sense of humor, as is evidenced in her most recent exhibition at Rosamund Felsen. Having chosen farming equipment—most prominently, tractors—as her subject matter, Carson revels in the sheer monumentality and vibrant colors of these...
“People from the village,” said David Hockney recently in The Smithsonian, “come up and tease me, ‘We hear you’ve started drawing on your telephone.’ And I tell them, ‘Well, no, actually, it’s just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad.’” How did Hockney...
Lesley Vance’s work may at first read like Diebenkorn in miniature, but her solo show quotes midcentury abstraction in a distinctly Reagan-era palette; little messages from the 1960s retold in twilight Cold War parlance. The gallery walls nearly swallow her small...
When not sure what to say or write, one might fill space with “x x x,” “blank blank blank” or “. . .” Petra Cortright titles her recent exhibition with all three—“x x x blank blank blank . . . ”—alluding to casual causality and ideas that will be completed...
The art of Lynn Aldrich celebrates and extrapolates on the ordinary. She focuses on objects from the world of everyday life to both transform them structurally and insinuate a sense of larger mysteries. She takes utensils and garden-variety household items and through...